02-26-2023, 07:30 PM
I've got an ancient R710 (or 720?) Dell server running unraid that I want to replace. It's a huge rack mount server that takes up a ton of space and a ton of power, and pretty noisy too. I'm looking at either a DS1522+ or a DS423+ that was just announced. Really the only reason to even think about the 423+ is for the hardware transcoding. All of my Plex streaming is done locally since I'm on Starlink and upload is not great for streaming that direction. Clients are Apple TV HD, modern iPhones, iPad, and an old cheap Roku. I just ran int a problem with the Apple TV HD and some 4k HIEC encoded media. The Apple TV is not a 4k model and can't handle that format and my old unraid server is a Xeon and has zero ability to hardware transcode. Luckily it has a ton of CPU power and we made it work.
Honestly I'm thinking just got with the DS1522+ to get the extra bay, the additional RAM, the higher upper RAM limit, and all the other modern goodies. But is that a mistake?
Honestly I'm thinking just got with the DS1522+ to get the extra bay, the additional RAM, the higher upper RAM limit, and all the other modern goodies. But is that a mistake?